05-03-2010, 12:03 PM
I have a better idea. Sell ringside seats at the Parthenon for the ritual beheading of senior bankers who haven't shown gratitude for having been rescued. I'll pay to see that.
mokin:
Anyway, this is the same sort of deal the Germans are suggesting that saw US companies pick up Tiger nations assets for fire sale prices, after a coterie of hedge funds manipulated the crash of the Tiger economies circa 1998 -- beginning with Thailand, but extending to Korea, Singapore, Japan etc.
They made a fortune sending these countries crashing to their knees by betting against them, and then cherry-picked the assets the most desired.
mokin:Anyway, this is the same sort of deal the Germans are suggesting that saw US companies pick up Tiger nations assets for fire sale prices, after a coterie of hedge funds manipulated the crash of the Tiger economies circa 1998 -- beginning with Thailand, but extending to Korea, Singapore, Japan etc.
They made a fortune sending these countries crashing to their knees by betting against them, and then cherry-picked the assets the most desired.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14